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once said the following words most aptly:
“Your Form is a jewel to see,
your speech is a jewel to hear,
your teaching are a jewel to reflect upon. Truly, you are a mine bearing the jewels of goodness. Just to hear you brings joy:
just to look upon you calms the heart;
your speech refreshes and your teaching frees.” 2
It is to be noted that the making of votive images is encouraged in many major Sutras because it is regarded as act of making, gaining and accumulating merits. As a result, many votive images of diverse styles, forms and materials were made from different Buddhist traditions and countries over a long period of time. Thus, in the Lotus Sutra 􀀕
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the following words of guidance were taught in respect of the making of Buddha images: “

If men for the sake of buddhas / Have erected images / Carved with the characteristicsigns, / [They} have all attained the Buddha-way. / Or those who with the precious seven, / With brass, red and white copper, / With wax, lead, and tin, / With iron, wood, and clay, / Or with glue and lacquer/ Have adorned and made buddhas’ images, / All such ones as these / Have attained the Buddha-way. / Those who have painted buddhas’ images / With the hundred blessing-adorned signs, / Whether done by themselves or by employing others, / Have attained the Buddhaway. / Even boys in their play / Who with reed, wood, or pen / Or with the fingernail / Have drawn buddhas’ images, / All such ones as these, / Gradually accumulating merit / And perfecting hearts of great pity, / Have attained the Buddha-way;